Taber's Medical Dictionary
Ballance sign
(bal′ăns)
[C.A. Ballance, Brit. surgeon, 1856-1936]
The presence of persistent dullness to percussion in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, with shifting dullness in the right flank, in a patient with splenic injury.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Ballance Sign." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/all/Ballance_sign.
Ballance sign. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/all/Ballance_sign. Accessed December 14, 2024.
Ballance sign. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/all/Ballance_sign
Ballance Sign [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 14]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/all/Ballance_sign.
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